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I guess Death's Head #6 could be read either as a parody of such gung-ho military titles as GI Joe or Commando, or as a tribute to them. Probably a little of both, featuring a crack military team of characters with designs so ugly they could easily have been included in the later GI Joe toy line.

Early Liam Sharp on art duty for this issue.

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Issue #1078'd been the plan to do so, carried out by the crew she'd recruited.

It'd climaxed in the Orghams being threatened to call off the public hanging of Batman - and their going ahead with it anyway.

#1079 had Batman swinging from a noose in the wind, the Orghams' forces pushing back against Selina's crew, and Catwoman with Prince Arzen and Queen Dariah Orgham.

( There were still events to play out. )

Current Music: 赤の連鎖の創造 / Creation of the Red Chain - Snowpoint Lounge

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It's following from the end of issue #1075, which had Batman taken into the custody of the Orghams.

He's chained up in a cell, a demon eating away at his memories - at the Orgham family's mercy, kept to be another instrument of their Gotham-shaping work.

The family's scion, Arzen - the public face of the Orghams - came to the Bat, to Bruce Wayne whom he'd come to consider a friend.

" Only a few hours before you will be walked to your death. "

( His words fit the air. )

Current Music: White Horses - Courteeners

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This is not something that takes place in the everyday mainstream continuity. To me, it's one of those things that defines continuity in where it's sort of like The Killing Joke [...] Even though back then it wasn't part of continuity and fit in, it defined continuity but didn't conform to it. -- Tom King

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I think part of this new generation that's growing up that lives with a constant barrage of negativity in their lives, between social media and the news and everything, and they want to escape that. It's hard for them to escape into Batman as a "vengeance is the night" character. But the fact that we can bend Batman to become something light and cute and fun and still be true to that character, I think that's amazing. -- Tom King

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laughing_tree

Okay, I feel the goal of romance comics is watching the journey discover that they're two pieces that fit together. I love romance comics, but that's not really what's happening here. These two pieces already fit together and we're watching the impact of it. So it's almost like the moment after the romance comic. -- Tom King

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The criminal reaches for the pearls, and Batman ends up falling for someone whose sole purpose is to steal jewelry. That’s some fucked up Freudian shit, man. -- Tom King

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"About five years ago I wrote the story for Steve Dillon, figuring that it would be the best way to cement his comeback. He’d been ill for a while but was now keen to get back to where he’d been, and with the Preacher show about to kick off, I thought it would gain the maximum publicity possible -- the Preacher team doing Batman (I suppose I could have gone for X-Men or whatever instead, but I have my limits). Probably my most cynically commercial decision ever. Anyway, not long after I wrote the last script, fate intervened in the worst possible way…" - Garth Ennis

"For me, the book isn’t a tribute to Steve, it’s just something that in practical terms exists because of him. I don’t think anyone would be too surprised to learn that were I to celebrate Steve’s life it wouldn’t be with a Batman comic or any kind of comic -- it would be with a large donation to his favourite charitable cause, the Arthur Guinness Foundation. But I do like to think of him having a good old laugh at Mr. I-hate-superheroes ending up writing Batman." - Garth Ennis

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It's my last chance to talk about American comics. -- Grant Morrison

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laughing_tree

That's a big strand with the relationship that Hal starts to develop with the young Guardians. And they're almost the opposite [of their predecessors]: They're not ancient, they're not authoritarian in that sense but they have very strict ideas of what they think is right and wrong. They have far-seeing abilities to predict what might happen and how things will work out. But, as you said, they're not always necessarily right and they're going to have to learn that. -- Grant Morrison

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laughing_tree

So we loved the kind of disconnection of that: the beatnik idea of how Jordan has no home, he sleeps on friends' couches, he sleeps with women who have these bizarre connections with him. He travels with nothing but his lantern and a rucksack. And he hitchhikes on the road, he's afraid of nothing, he likes a fight, he's just this old-school kind of guy who's trying to survive. He's like a cowboy trying to survive in the 21st century in a lot of ways. -- Grant Morrison

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laughing_tree

For me, it was about going back to what the hell happened to this guy. He gets this ring, he's adopted into an interplanetary police force, and basically all his relationships fall apart and he can't hold down a job. There are a dozen women whom he has maintained all these difficult, and bizarre, and quite different relationships with, and he can't seem to hold it together. But he happens to be the greatest cosmic cop of all. -- Grant Morrison

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laughing_tree

Yeah, we were going right back to the original physical model for Sinestro. [Sinestro co-creator] Gil Kane used David Niven so we thought it would be funny if this Anti-Matter Sinestro was this English gentleman. Give him a slight cynical bite and sense of humor and it just set the whole origins for the character again and we loved the look of his colors; we reversed the colors of his Sinestro suit, it looks great! -- Grant Morrison

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Instead of Hal butting heads with these geriatric space dudes that he always had problems with, where he was the young cocky guy and they were the old heads, suddenly we have Young Guardians. It’s also having a little bit of fun with this ‘ok boomer’ thing. -- Grant Morrison

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laughing_tree

Well, it's kind of like with Superman -- he's expansive and he's a good character. Batman is a more devious and more Machiavellian type of character who can really bring you down if he wants. But with Green Lantern and Hal Jordan, it's really fun to put yourself in that headspace, this is a guy who doesn't break. You know, so many heroes have been made fallible as an attempt to make them relatable and, I think with Jordan, the less fallible you make him, the more fun -- and honestly, the more relatable -- I think we know guys like him, guys who get their heads down and just do the job, that would get their arms blown off and just be like "It's just a scratch!" -- Grant Morrison

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laughing_tree

There's not a lot of stress for Hal until maybe midway through the run. I like to see him coming in like a cop; the minute a cop comes in with the hand of authority and defends and then gets to get up and go home and I like that he has that authority to just come in and sort things out. -- Grant Morrison

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laughing_tree

He's unflappable, he's been through everything, and he kind of knows when he makes a decision it works out for him; he's got good luck in that way and there's a sense he's a man without fear. And I figure that's why he gets on with Barry Allen. The Flash is another guy who's been through bizarre psychedelic adventures -- they've been turned into puppets and tablespoons and all kinds of things -- but they keep their cool, they're kind of like astronauts. -- Grant Morrison

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laughing_tree

And so we just wanted to do something that made it look very different and Liam [Sharp] went back to a style when I first saw Liam's work -- I think it was in 2000 A.D.; it's kind of like a European album or a story in Heavy Metal. So it's something I've seen before but something we certainly haven't seen in Green Lantern. I think it elevates the issue, it actually makes it a very different kind of issue and it was our intention to keep switching up the styles and trying new things. -- Grant Morrison

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Death's Head #6 - Yo-Yo Joe

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Detective Comics #1076 kicks off an ensemble story.

Batman/Catwoman #9 - "O Little Town of Bethlehem"

Batman/Catwoman #8 - "We Wish You a Merry Christmas"

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The Green Lantern: Season Two #12 - "The Intelligence Engine" [series finale]

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The Green Lantern: Season Two #9 - "The Marriage of the Trillennium!"

The Green Lantern: Season Two #8 - "War with the Anti-World"

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The Green Lantern: Season Two #5 - "Wanted: Hyperman Dead or Alive!"

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